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LIMERICK hurling manager John Kiely has confirmed that defender Mike Casey will attend the Santry Sports Injury Clinic with a knee injury.
Na Piarsaigh’s defender suffered the injury in a challenge game against Galway on Sunday at the LIT Gaelic Grounds and now it seems likely that he will miss the remainder of the 2020 season.
But Casey’s teammates in Limerick, Darragh O’Donovan and Richie English, could see action after the injury layoffs.
The two Doon club members missed their team’s last appearance at Limerick SHC by losing to Casey’s Na Piarsaigh.
Both have also been sidelined with knee injuries: O’Donovan suffered in his club’s county quarterfinal victory over South Liberties and English’s cruciate ligament injury suffered in the Allianz Hurling League win over Galway on 2 February.
“We haven’t gotten to the end of the process yet, but it’s not good. He has injured his knee and has to go to Santry for more investigative scans. At the moment, sadly, it doesn’t look very good for him,” confirmed John Kiely. . by Mike Casey, this Tuesday night at a Limerick GAA media event via Zoom.
“Just a simple landing – textbook knee injury where a player just lands and tries to change direction on landing and that was it,” Kiely said of Mike Casey’s injury.
“We have had one almost every year for the last five years in the team and I hope it will be the only one this year, if it turns out to be confirmed, once thoroughly investigated in the next few days. We still have to go through the process. “
Speaking before the Mick Neville Park team’s training at Rathkeale, the Limerick manager confirmed that Darragh O’Donovan and Richie English were training again.
While it appears Kiely is accepting that he faces the championship without Mike Casey, he will have O’Donovan and maybe even Richie English, who is approaching nine months since the crusader was injured.
“Darragh O’Donovan is back in full training,” Kiely said.
“Darragh suffered a knee injury in a club game in all similar circumstances (to Mike Casey), landing and turning at the same time.”
Kiely continued: “He was very lucky that it wasn’t a very serious injury, but at the same time it caused him to miss a couple of games for his clubs – really vital and important games like a semi-final and a county final, nobody wants to. he lost those games, but Darragh and his club knew that the injury at the time was too serious to take risks. He was pragmatic and the right decision was made not to play those games, “Kiely said.
“The proof is in the pudding and he is back in full training but it is a shame that he has not been able to play that series of games with his club. But he is a young player and they are a good club, with a really underage academy. strong that fuels their system, and I have no doubt that they will return to the county finals and semi-finals many times over the next six, seven, eight years and I know that Darragh will play a significant role in those games, but the club and Darragh made the right decision to give themselves the opportunity to fully recover before returning to training or playing. “
What about Richie English?
“Richie has made fantastic progress in the last six months under the leadership of Dr. James Ryan, Mark Melbourne and Mark Van Drumpt, our medical team. He is running hard and working hard and I have no doubt that he will put the jersey back on. green”. in the next few months. There is some work to be done, but not huge, “confirmed the Limerick manager.
On the other hand, his players are preparing without injury for the October 25 tie with Clare at Thurles.
“The guys have suffered from soft tissue injuries across the country – as I understand it, every panel has suffered a bit with soft tissue injuries as a result of the club championship and in the heavier work that we would be doing with the players; more sessions longer, harder sessions “Quicker, more aggressive brakes and twists and turns in training,” explained Kiely.
“It’s nothing unusual and it’s manageable, the guys are in great shape in the general sense. We would have been extremely happy with the way we came back from the clubs, the big picture was that they weren’t that far off the mark in terms where they had to be in terms of where we wanted to take them on championship day. “
He added: “They came back very fresh and eager to work and very happy to be back together as a group, as we all were. It was a long time since we were together as a group in March. It was refreshing for everyone.” of us getting back together and getting down to business, albeit in a slightly modified environment. “
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